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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has joined the R Consortium! This is a very positive development for the R Consortium and the R Community in general. The Moore Foundation has been a positive force for supporting technology that can make a real difference in people’s lives since its foundation in 2000 with an endowment of over $6 billion. The grant from the Moore Foundation brings considerable prestige and resources to the R Consortium. And the direct participation of Chris Mentzel, program director of the Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, will lend his expertise to both the R Consortium’s Board of Directors and Infrastructure Steering Committee. (The Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, which supports efforts to develop tools and techniques to harness large, complex data sets, is backed by a $60 million budget.) For more information, see the R Consortium’s announcement.

rstudio::conf, the first RStudio-organized conference devoted to “all things R and RStudio”, kicked off today in Orlando following two days of training and workshops. The preliminary numbers for the conference are very encouraging. Over 200 R users attended the workshops, while approximately 400 people are expected to attend the conference itself. The two new workshops developed for rstudio::conf, “Intermediate Shiny” and “Master the Tidyverse” are expected to be offered at various locations later this year. All of the conference presentations should be available online in a few weeks.

The R Consortium’s Information Steering Committee (ISC) first call for proposals for 2017 will close on midnight February 10th. There is still time to get your proposal reviewed - and possibly funded - by the ISC.

The next satRday event will be held in Cape Town South Africa on February 18th.

New York R will be held on April 21st and 22nd. The website should be up soon.

R/Finance 2017, the ninth annual R/Finance conference, is scheduled for May 19th and 20th in Chicago. Over the past eight years, R/Finance has attained a superb record for technical excellence and for offering a quality R Community experience. I expect the trend to continue. Registration is not yet open, but the call for papers will be open until February 28th.

Registration for useR! 2017 is open, and the conference is already filling up! This is the premier international conference for the R Community. If you can be in Brussels this summer, don’t miss the opportunity to attend.